OneGuyFromBarlick

Bank Street before play area in 1979.

Looks like the Gas Board are having a good time...

The new flats are built in 2012.

Earby Station. Fresh fish and newspapers daily!

Stanley's mobile shop outside the shop at Sough in 1956. It was a Bedford Dormobile van.

Apprentices at Brown and Pickles in 1939. Walt Fisher, James Crook and Ken Crew.

The Bristol Tractor. Made at Sough Bridge Mill just after the war.....

The larger Bristol 20 tractor made at Sough. See THIS for a topic on the site referring to Bristol Tractors.

Kelbrook Young Farmers meeting at Owlet Nest Farm County Brook in 1976.

The Young Farmers were very active. Here they are competing in a sheep shearing competition at the Great Yorkshire Show at Harrogate in 1976.

One of the things I liked about the Young Farmers was the way they forced members out of their comfort zone. One aspect of this was making the lads compete in events like lining a cake tin. Here's Winston Horsfield's prize winning entry at Harrogate in 1976!

Walt Fisher and Ken Smith at Embsay Waterworks in the 1960s when B&P were working up there.

Gwen Fisher, (Walt's wife) and Sylvia Jefferson in the office at Brown and Pickles in 1981 just before the firm closed down.

Bob Parkinson closing the clow on Bancroft dam after essential maintenance in the summer of 1979. In those days we spent a lot of time looking after our water resources. These days they are neglected and many don't realise what their original purpose was. This dam has gone of course, filled in in 1979 when the body of the mill was demolished.

On the surface not perhaps the most gripping image but very important. This is a wall built using old fashioned lime mortar, the standard building mortar for over 2000 years. The black specks are from the fuel used to burn the lime. If you see a wall made using this mortar it is older than about 1850 when the grey ash/lime mortar became standard. This and the transition from grey slate roofs to blue Welsh slate are good markers, blue slate only came into the town with the railway. This wall was the gable end of Sally and Ian's shop at the corner of Frank Street and Rainhall Road.

Stanley wrote: This wall was the gable end of Sally and Ian's shop at the corner of Frank Street and Rainhall Road.

Moi ?

Yup. You and Sally ran the knicker shop didn't you?

Nowt to do with us Stanley, but I appreciated the light up number 10's.

They sold proper knickers too! Sad to see it go, end of an era.

Sorry about that! Rogue memory obviously. I was sure it was you and Sally. Was it someone else on the site?

Looking North from the roof of Wellhouse Mill in 1978.

Stanley wrote:Sorry about that! Rogue memory obviously. I was sure it was you and Sally. Was it someone else on the site?

Spitfire I think Stanley, not registered on the new site.

Stanley wrote:Looking North from the roof of Wellhouse Mill in 1978.

Isn't the camera looking south? I don't know the place but I'm going by the `north' windows in the `toblerone' roof. Weren't such windows angled to the north to prevent too much heat from the sun?

Gas works slightly to the right and Fernbank Mill chimney directly ahead in the distance so the view is just a tad North of due West from that vantage point. Well spotted Tiz, you could have worked in reconnaissance photo interpretation during the war!

Tiz, relatively few sheds had true North light roofs because of the need to fit the building on to the site. Bancroft was as near dead on north light as made no difference. In practice they were made as near north light as possible.